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Sinclair
Misdirect and hex enemies

With the help of their unwilling assistant, <i>The Magnificent Sinclair</i> can confuse enemies with curving hexes and rapid bolts.

Sinclair
Misdirect and hex enemies

With the help of their unwilling assistant, <i>The Magnificent Sinclair</i> can confuse enemies with curving hexes and rapid bolts.

Description

Inspired by bjerg arcbolt/rajeki, my own preferences.

Be careful about getting baited into ult stealing early, generally just sit back and rain hell from the skies. Yamato/vin are your best consistent ults to steal for damage. Situationally steal nice utility spells that don't require large ult investment like dynamo, lash, mo.

twitch.tv/bigduccenergy_ if you have any questions or want to talk magic :)

Item Build

LANE OPTIONAL

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Healing Rite

Our best choice for lane sustain since it contributes to rescue beam cost, almost always better than extra regen

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Rebuttal

I almost always buy this vs viscous, it's also a decent late game choice vs a heavy melee team if you have a spare slot

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Guardian Ward

Help a teammate in lane, get some extra ability range and mobility

Deadlock Item

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Monster Rounds

Push fast, farm fast, magician is best when wave is at enemy tower and he is raining hell from the bridge in the middle of any lane

CORE

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III

Imbue

Surge of Power

Experimenting with this, hard maybe, more bolt damage

Deadlock Item

II

Imbue

Compress Cooldown

More bolts, more assistants, more ults, more bunnies

Deadlock Item

III

Tankbuster

Exploding beef

Deadlock Item

III

Greater Expansion

Farm all camps easily, blow up the entire lane

Deadlock Item

II

Healbane

Usually your first and easiest option for heal

Deadlock Item

IV

Imbue

Mystic Reverb

Hit your bolts, make your enemies cry while they wait to take another, heal from their pain

COMMON SITUATIONALS

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Reactive Barrier

Scales fairly well late game with boons, buy this if you're repeatedly getting hit with annoying CC, better to just avoid those situations but can be a helpful crutch item

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Return Fire

Make m1 heroes regret attacking you

Deadlock Item

III

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Cultist Sacrifice

Helps to improve your early game power spike

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III

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Rescue Beam

Can be useful for ability range, don't get super early, but you can help your team vs bebop hooks, lash ults, lassos, etc

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Arcane Surge

A possible way to get more power early, don't necessarily recommend but it can be a good upgrade if you plan on getting stam vs heroes that steal stam

LATE

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Superior Cooldown

More bolts, more assistants, more ults, more bunnies

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Boundless Spirit

Zoom, boom, survive

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Transcendent Cooldown

Maximized bolting

MOVEMENT

Pick 1

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Majestic Leap

Rain hell from above, have more effective aerial ults (lash, seven)

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Warp Stone

Niche choice, instantly relocate yourself for jukes

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Magic Carpet

Be anywhere, look cooling doing it, extend the duration of everything

LUXURY

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Spellbreaker

I will sometimes buy this ultra late game if a hero like talon, lash, or pocket are blowing me up instantly

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Divine Barrier

Option to save teammates and get better aoe

Deadlock Item

IV

Imbue

Active

Echo Shard

Very late game utility option to enable your team vs two setes of bunnies

Deadlock Item

IV

Lightning Scroll

Only buy this if you're ultra late game and intending to steal seven/warden ults

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Active

Vortex Web

Niche choice that can set up your bolts and combo with big aoe teamfights

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Escalating Exposure

Boost your damage for situations where you do continuous spirit damage (seven, warden ult steals)

ANTIHEAL OPTIONS

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Decay

Probably the second best choice for antiheal

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Spirit Burn

Watch the world burn, buy this if they have crazy amounts of heal and you're super late game (40k+)

SITUATIONAL

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Debuff Reducer

Don't buy this without finishing the remover

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Debuff Remover

Buy vs situations where teams are focusing you with anti mobility items, like a haze with a slowing hex, lash with silence wave, also helps get out of long stuns and annoying debuffs like infernus

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Trophy Collector

If you roll the enemy early, this can be a decent purchase, not recommended before you finish most of your core items since you are delaying your power spike, reducing your early game power spike

Deadlock Item

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Counterspell

Buy if you're a god gamer, block lash ults, wraith ults, good for anti hatecrime

Deadlock Item

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Mystic Slow

Slows = land more bolts

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Spiritual Overflow

Haven't tested this, but it could be useful giga late game

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Knockdown

Buy vs multi flier comp or if need interrupt

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Spirit Lifesteal

Buy if you're stealing ults like seven/warden

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Plated Armor

Buy if struggling vs gun damage

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Backstabber

Niche choice if you want easier tracking for curving bolts after proc, also the slow helps land bolts

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Veil Walker

If you're feeling whimsical

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Mystic Shot

A bit more early burst

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Spirit Shredder Bullets

Reduce resistances

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Spirit Rend

Reduce resistances

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Slowing Bullets

Slows = land more bolts

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Active

Infuser

Another way of sustaining for a long channeled ult steal

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Disarming Hex

Disabling utility, helpful for disabling hyper carries

Deadlock Item

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Active

Unstoppable

Very rare buy, only get if you're repeatedly stealing big ults like seven's

Ability Point Order

Vexing Bolt

Spectral Assistant

Rabbit Hex

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